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  * Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.ui.preferences;

 import org.eclipse.jface.action.Action;
 import org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchMessages;

 /**
  * The ViewPreferencesAction is the action for opening
  * a view preferences dialog on a class.
  *
  * @since 3.1
  */
 public abstract class ViewPreferencesAction extends Action {

     /**
      * Create a new instance of the receiver.
      */
     public ViewPreferencesAction() {
         super(WorkbenchMessages.OpenPreferences_text);
     }
     
     /* (non-Javadoc)
      * @see org.eclipse.jface.action.Action#run()
      */
     public void run() {
         openViewPreferencesDialog();
     }

     /**
      * Open a view preferences dialog for the receiver.
      */
     public abstract void openViewPreferencesDialog();

 }

